autosuppression
|au-to-sup-pres-sion|
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/ˌɔːtoʊsəˈprɛʃən/
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/ˌɔːtəʊsəˈpreʃ(ə)n/
self-induced inhibition
Etymology
'autosuppression' is formed from the combining form 'auto-' and the noun 'suppression'. 'auto-' originates from Greek, specifically the word 'autos', where 'autos' meant 'self'. 'suppression' originates from Latin, specifically the word 'suppressio' (from the verb 'suppressus' / 'supprimere'), where the prefix 'sub-/sup-' meant 'under' and 'primere' (from 'premere') meant 'to press'.
'suppression' entered English via Latin 'suppressio' and Old French forms; in Modern English it combined with the Greek-derived combining form 'auto-' to create the compound 'autosuppression' in technical and scientific usage.
Originally the parts meant 'self' (auto-) and 'to press down/hold under' (suppression). Over time the compound came to mean 'self-caused or automatic inhibition' in psychological and technical contexts.
Meanings by Part of Speech
Noun 1
a psychological or physiological process in which thoughts, emotions, impulses, or responses are inhibited by internal or automatic mechanisms (self-inhibition).
The therapist described the patient's autosuppression of anger as a likely cause of his chronic somatic symptoms.
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Noun 2
in engineering or signal processing, the automatic reduction or elimination of unwanted signals, noise, or feedback by a device or system.
The device's autosuppression feature reduced background noise in the recording by automatically attenuating specific frequencies.
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